Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family and my mom's cousin's family who just moved here from Michigan. It was such a fun day! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!


Helping Grandma make pies


"Let's eat!"


Claire and Penelope (my cousins' puppy)


Yummy food!


Mmmm... pies!

Monday, November 15, 2010

26

Today is my 26th birthday. I started the day with french toast and watching Monk. I don't get to do that very often. I just relaxed the whole day since it was my day off. (Sweet!) We had dinner at Filippi's Pizza with friends and family and I got spoiled! What a great day!


My little princess all ready to go to dinner (in her new tutu!)


Mmmm... lemon


Blurry, but you get an idea of her reaction


This is the cake my mom made me... chocolate fudge and peanut butter... to die for!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween fun

We've had quite the Halloween celebration. Friday, we went to our ward's trunk-or-treat. Saturday, we went to another ward's trunk-or-treat since it was a medieval theme. In between, we watched various Halloween movies and shows. I'm not huge on scary movies, so I go for the wholesome and funny ones. Yesterday, we went over to our friends' house for dinner and trick-or-treating. While waiting for our friend to pick us up (since our car was being stupid again), I took Claire around the apartment complex and realized that it really is not a good place to trick-or-treat. There was not one kid outside and after going to about half a dozen doors, we gave up since only one person was home. We were picked up about 6:45 and had had one trick-or-treater by then. At our friends' house, I took Claire around the neighborhood. I dressed her up as a cow (I was a farmer) and she was a big hit. One house after another, people were just doting over her. At the first house, she walked right in when they opened the door. I decided to carry her the rest of the time. There were several people who just offered the bowl and Claire would pick out a piece of candy. After two houses with that option (and Claire with one piece of candy in each hand), we were offered it a third time. Without hesitation, Claire put both pieces of candy in one hand and picked out a box of milk duds. As we were walking away from the house, she shook the box at the guy and he just laughed. She repeated the box-shaking for several houses as we walked away. She cracks me up! After dinner, we had dessert (besides candy) and watched Hocus Pocus. Such a fun-filled weekend!


Our fancy jack-o-lantern (which lasted 2 days before it rotted)


Trunk-or-treat


The farmer and the cow


Like the shoes?


She loves goldfish


The costume has a box inside that moos. It's an old costume so it sounds more like a sick cow


Love this kid!


Medieval trunk-or-treat


Halloween feast (steak, mashed potatoes and dinner in a pumpkin), plus candy and pumpkin crunch for dessert


Our first attempt at dinner in a pumpkin (it was yummy!)


Trick-or-treating will really wear a cow out